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churchier

churchier is the comparative form of churchy.

Meaning of churchy

Adjective

churchy (comparative churchier, superlative churchiest)

  1. (colloquial, derogatory, mildly) Piously Christian.
    • I was staying with my mother's sister, a retired character actress with a churchy streak.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 90
  2. Resembling a church.
    • Your house looks kind of churchy.
  3. Reminiscent of a church service.
    • The party had a churchy atmosphere.

See all 4 meanings of churchy

Questions about churchier

What is churchier the comparative form of?
Churchier is the comparative form of churchy.

Words near churchier in the dictionary

  1. Churchian
  2. Churchianity
  3. Churchians
  4. churchical
  5. churchie
  6. churchier
  7. churchies
  8. churchiest
  9. churchification
  10. churchified
  11. churchifies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: churchier (page history and authors); churchy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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